Even with psychic defense your opponent has to consider their suppression hasn’t worked and rather focus fire to ensure vehicles don’t move or shoot because they are dead (or weapon destroyed/immobed). Importantly this power is cast during your turn after your opponent has done all his shooting. For an extra five points per vehicle, this is an excellent power. Even Rhinos greatly enjoy the use of this power as passengers can still utilise the top hatch most effectively. This obviously helps make the Grey Knight army very hard to suppress in terms of both shooting and moving and what often wants to be suppressed (back field shooting) will generally be out of range of psychic defenses.
What Fortitude does is allow a vehicle to ignore Crew Stunned and Shaken results. This is a vehicle based psychic power and thanks to Psychic Pilot, always cast at Ld10. Whilst not all of these powers are available on all units, they are pretty readily accessible. We’ll start with the army wide powers first. It is quite likely you’ll cast 20+ powers in a game depending upon your build.
Even in a normal game you’re going to likely suffer perils at some point. Whilst characters are more likely to cast through this because they have excess wounds and invuls, it’s the loss of leadership and damage to your own tanks you need to be careful of. You don’t want to be damaging your own tanks for your opponent (it’s only a glance you say but I’m sure the Razorback enjoyed having its turret blown off) and losing your squad leader can often hurt the overall leadership of the unit (I.e. Runes of Warding) are really bad for your tanks and squads. Psychic defenses which make perils more likely (i.e. All in all most Grey Knight armies will have a lot of psychic powers to use every game (including mass force weapons) and whilst psychic defense isn’t mandatory, it’s going to really annoy Grey Knight players.Īs a Grey Knight player it’s important to remember a couple of things. As for the psychic powers you only get on characters, well they are a different story and there are some very good ones. They are certainly annoying, effective and useful for the Grey Knights payer, but this is factored into the codex design. For the most part, the across the board psychic powers aren’t super scary. Yay Armies in 5th is back! Grey Knights are one of the premier psychic armies in the fluff and they now have the powers and playability to back it up.
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